A-type star · white star
HR 8272
HR 8272 is a white star in the constellation Cygnus 551 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,026 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 83.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 551 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 205939 · HIP 106752
8,026 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
83.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
551 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
83.02×
the Sun's light output
0.05
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.